...values had specific implications for our trade, which should not be imposed on other nations: "Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations are recommended...things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing. . . ,"62 Let us now examine first the realism and then the...

...portion of the foreign world; so far I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ..." and again, " Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended...nor granting exclusive favors or preferences;..." Thomas Jefferson stated clearly: I have ever deemed it fundamental for the United States never to take...

...'formed engagements let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. . . . Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations are recommended...things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing with powers so disposed, in order to give trade...